The Trump Administration IS a Nazi Problem

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Every time I see an argument in the comments about whether people not voting Blue (but also not voting Red, obviously) are “handing the election” to the opponents, I feel like the people arguing such haven’t re-assessed their understanding of our political landscape since 2016.

The reality is that you cannot cajole thousands or even millions of people into voting the way you want them to. There’s no social or technical framework to do it. It’s literally an impossibility. You have to entice them.

I understand that the DNC deluded themselves into thinking they could, despite Obama’s nomination over the DNC-preferred Hillary in 2008, but we’ve had 3 election cycles since Obama, and Democrats have lost 2, and severely underperformed in the other, all because of weak candidates who refused to shift their platform towards the votes they were missing. And their strategy was merely to cajole people with “better than Republicans/Trump”.

If it worked, I’d hate it but at least I’d respect the utility of it for harm prevention. But it literally doesn’t work.

The fact that every discussion of changing the DNC sees the VoteBlueNoMatterWho brigade arrive to deploy this rhetoric clearly shows that they know the DNC won’t change, but rather than blame the group whose explicit job is to attract voters with their platform for being intractable to voter demands, they instead rush to ensure this argument is stated and visible.

At this point it’s not actually voter engagement or strengthening of the Blue base, it’s just preemptively attempting to construct a scapegoat for when the strategy continues not to work.

“Don’t you remember all those times when we explicitly told people online they had to vote for us? And then they didn’t? So that’s their fault, see? Yes, even though we knew what would get their votes, but refused to do anything different.”

Unfortunately, abolition is one of those things that people poo-pah no matter what agency is involved, because we’ve allowed the Right to successfully frame its changes as “realistic” and “practical”, and Democrat changes as “idealism”. People will act as though it’s completely impossible to not have ICE or DHS… despite the fact they are both younger than most of us.

My Trumper family have stopped with pretenses at this point. They’ll usually just smile smugly and ignore any questions if confronted. Republicans want this unapologetically, they just don’t want to be on the record saying it, in case it doesn’t finish the way they want.

It’s always Capitalism itself (it’s what’s driving the devaluation of art and humanity in general, in the first place).

we’d better be careful to make sure that we aren’t simply giving the federal government (and the shitheads who run it) even more power and control over everything

You do realize that copyright is solely a function of the federal government, right? There is no state or municipal copyright, it’s already the federal government who decides whether your copyright as a creator is valid or enforceable, or whether to just hand it over to another company/ billionaire.

The second most infuriating thing about this is when I see the LinkedIn bros and ‘realists’ basically being like, “this is good, humanities was never a worthwhile thing to pour so much money into”.

This whole thing reminds me of the Nomadic Cycle, where nomadic groups would sack and uproot the decadent, settled societies, coveting their goods and arts, but not understanding that those things could not be maintained without the scholarship and artists. They would end up destroying the very foundation of the thing they coveted, because they didn’t understand it.

Somehow, Capitalism feels like that.

No no, they’ve now moved on to, “well fine, it’s real, but it’s too late and/or too expensive to do anything now”.

Never been to Weltenburger, but I used to go to Kloster Andechs with my dad and grandmother to get their pork knuckles. Something about going to a kloster (abbey) and seeing the monks living there like it’s still the 1500s is very cool. Kloster Andechs was founded in 1458 with an official writ for operating as a tavern, and has been brewing since then. Imagine living in a place that’s been around and doing the same thing for 560+ years.

That right there is what we call a “First Amendment lawsuit”, kids.

Mozrella, my favorite cheese

The real means to prevent this is unionizing, which is really the answer to most other techbro-hellscape problems too. Just like Hollywood is putting anti-ai clauses in their contracts, so too will tech workers need to. Unfortunately, given that the end goal is to remove the IT workers entirely, this is still only a delay if companies push ahead, since just like scabs, there will always be people willing to sell their fellow workers down the river for their own enrichment.

But we’re not even close to that point; most tech workers think unionizing is a 4-letter word. There’s always a private chat room where folks are lamenting the absolute class-ignorance of their coworkers who are all convinced they’re going to stumble into unicorn stock options soon, despite multiple rounds of layoffs each year now being standard in tech.

The real question is what has to happen to end this horrible capitalist nightmare in general.

Her story didn’t end when she was killed, and it is very relevant that her queerness is being weaponized to rationalize and justify her killing by conservatives.

I think your “everyone else” is excluding about 1/3 of the country. Go on a conservative news site, and see if you can find one article about her that doesn’t mention her being lesbian, and understand that they do so because those sites are ‘smearing’ her to their homophobic readers, so they won’t empathize with her.

Go into a conservative space on any social media, and tell me how many are lamenting her death at all, rather than calling her a ‘professional agitator’ or saying she brought it on herself.

Yeah, even as horrible as I know conservatives are, it was still shocking how many of them were making jokes about this, or treating it as somehow making her murder okay. Between this and how many conservatives have been making open ‘jokes’ about mass-murdering the GTA 6 pride parade attendees (the existence of which is not actually something R* has said, and is mostly just these same people pushing), people need to realize that the average conservative is starting to ideate about killing queer people.

Hey, finger crossed! Hope this turns into something. :)

Because Wall Street knows that Trump will let them ride along for the plundering if they bribe him, and (if we ignore that no Democrat president would do this in the first place) they know that a Democrat wouldn’t… At least not in the same way.

Ah yes, the evergreen claim of being about to unveil his Healthcare Housing Plan!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SF5MiM-P2p4

independent has always meant the freedom to create whatever you want without input unwanted influence from anyone else.

Yes, and if a publisher is present, you cannot as a consumer ensure this is the case. No publisher actually makes their contracts with dev studios public for review, or allows people to review their internal communication.

No, this distinction prevents publishers from co-opting “indie” as a label, which people support because of that artistic discretion, and hiding it behind their opaque promises of such independence that no one can verify. You cannot trust a dev hasn’t been influenced by a publisher when they’re present, so the only way to ensure that is to not have a publisher present.

I don’t know that movie, but I do know actual indie devs who use e.g. Patreon for funding. It’s not about not having money, it’s about who your money comes from, and whether there can be hidden stipulations on it. With publishers, there always are.